Word Meanings - EXILITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sudden springing or leaping out. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to EXILITION)

• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• LEAPFUL
  A basketful.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• SPRINGHALT
  A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.
• SPRINGTIME
  The season of spring; springtide.
• LEAPER
  One who, or that which, leaps.
• LEAP YEAR
  . Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year,
• SPRINGBOK; SPRINGBUCK
  A South African gazelle noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also
• SPRINGLET
  A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.
• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
• SPRINGINESS
  The state or quality of being springly. Boyle.
• SPRINGAL; SPRINGALD; SPRINGALL
  An active, springly young man. "There came two springals of full tender years." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.
• SPRINGING
  1. The act or process of one who, or that which, springs. 2. Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Ps. lxv. 10. Springing line of an arch , the horizontal line drawn through
• LEAPING
  from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider , a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ.
• SPRINGHEAD
  A fountain or source.
• LEAP
  1. A basket. Wyclif. 2. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• SPRING
  springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. Springe, 1. To leap; to bound; to jump. The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. Philips. 2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity;
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• OSSPRINGER
  The osprey.
• OUTLEAP
  To surpass in leaping.
• ESPRINGAL
  An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
• UPSPRING
  To spring up. Tennyson.